People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 August 1893 — A Truthful Letter. [ARTICLE]

A Truthful Letter.

The following letter, addressed to a citizen of this county from the lion. Henry M. Teller, U. S. Senator from Colorado, and formerly a member of President Hayes’ cabinet, is right to the point and is God’s truth. While many citizens of this country are alive to the vital importance of the silver question to the welfare and prosperity of our industrial classes, yet there are thousands who are apathetic and do not seem to realize the peril which threatens them and the disaster and ruin which impends over the country should silver again, as in 1873, be demonetized and abolished as money. As Senator Teller says, “It must he clear to any man. who desires to arrive at the truth,-that there is not gold enough in the world to do the world's business with.” What would then'be the result should the attempt be made? It would simply mean bankruptcy and beggary to thousands of our fellow men and the enrichment, of those who hold and control the gold of the world. Do we want them to come to this? Is the American citizen who feels home to be the dearest spot on earth willing to j place it in jeopardy that a few j shy locks may carry out their in- ; iquit-ous schemes? No. Then there should be a general and effective awakening on this subject before it is everlastingly too late. “Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty,” and the people, ! irrespective of party, < should I rally to the standard of the white I j metal and demand in no uneer- ! tain accents that the use of silver as money shall not perish from the earth.

United Sta tes Senate. 1 Washington. 1). August 11. ISXi. ) Dear Sir.— Yours of the 17th of July was sent to me at Denver, but did not reach that place before I left and has just come to my hands. lam very sorry that 1 have been prevented from responding' sooner, as I fear my failure to do so may have caused you some inconvenience. It would have been impossible for me to have given you a favorable reply to your request that I address you j proposed mass convention, which you think of holding during the latter part of September, for the reason that, with congress in session and the financial question uppermost, it would be utterly impossible for me to leave Washington at that time, much as I might desire to do so. I hope your convention, should it be held, will be a great success and that its proceedings will be of such a character as to help to convince the people of the United States that it is not, as it has been charged, the people of the silver producing states and territories alone, who are demanding the recognition of silver as money. lam glad to know, as I very well do, that there are thousands of patriotic i men throughout the country who take the opposite view of this question and who seem to realize that it is a question of general human interest rather than one of narrow selfishness, which is charged by some of the single standard advocates. It must be clear to any man who will give the least attention to the quesj tion with the desire to-arrive p.t 1 the truth, that there is not gold j enough in the world to do the i world’s business with, and that |if a further attempt is made to | put all the nations upon the ! single gold standard, we shall I soon find ourselves drifting toward the condition of the world during the dark ages. Yours truly,

H. M. TELLER.